| Description |
1 online resource (393 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Alternate Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; I Language, Education, and Cultural Change; 1 Language Variation: Students and Teachers Reflect on Accents and Dialects; 2 Speech Communities: Language as a Mediator of Messages and Perceptions; 3 Teaching Pronunciation: Using Phonology in the ESL and Foreign Language Classroom; II Literature, Translation, and Computers; 4 Lexicography: What Dictionaries Reveal about Language and Dictionary Makers; 5 Text Translation: Approaching Otherness; 6 Machine Translation: The Challenge of Ambiguity |
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7 The N-Word, the F-Word, and All that Jazz: Race, Sex, and Transgressive Language in Contemporary American Literature and Popular CultureIII Language, Power, and Identity; 8 Language, Power, and Sexual Assault: Women's Voices on Rape and Social Change; 9 Gender, Language, and Power: Surname or Sirname?; 10 Linguistics as a Forensic Science: The Case of Author Identification; IV Forms of Language and Communication |
| Summary |
Introduces college students from other disciplines to the world of linguistics through the real world applications of the field. This title helps students engage with the traditional areas of linguistics in an inductive, illustrative, and interactive way |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and languages.
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Electronic books. -- local
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Linguistics.
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Applied linguistics.
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languages (study discipline)
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language (general communication)
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linguistics.
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applied linguistics.
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Applied linguistics
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Language and languages
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Linguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parker, Judith
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| ISBN |
9780203839812 |
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0203839811 |
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1282628968 |
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9781282628960 |
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